I purchased a house at auction where the seller had committed suicide by putting a bullet through his head, while sitting in the living room.

Otherwise, bite the bullet and do the fixup that's really needed to bring it up to par with the others.

When I pick up a card that has a full paragraph, bullet points, etc on the back, I never read it.

I know from experience that only a tiny minority of small business owners follow their business/marketing plans to the letter.I guess what I'm trying to determine is this: If you bite the bullet and pay $2000, $3000, $4000 for the "full" package from one of these gurus, which of these programs are truly fundamentally, strategically and legally sound?

Bite the bullet and fix the infrastucture, so it will last another 30 years trouble free!

After all if the roof caves in a week after closing, your Buyer's agent will be sweating bullets like everyone else involved in the transaction, whether he/she earned 3% or 50 bucks, it's the same liability.

Another good example of a similar risk is investors bidding as owner/occupants on HUD properties, which I hear happens alot.I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet on the risk factor here for my first property and DEFINATELY get a mortgage broker to work on my next one.

I'll have to do a better job of pointing this out in the lease or maybe add a 1 page 'Rules of Engagement': A straight forward, no bs, bullet pointed list of expectations of tenant.

Don,Will,and John are right on.What a typical Guru will do is throw the meat out there and get the potential investor in a frenzy and then they will buy a course to only get mostly fluff.I can tell you being a commercial broker and investor is hard work.I was breaking down trash the other day from a tenant that left so that bulk would pick it up from one of my units.I don't look at the work but where it will get me too and the experience and learning.Once you accept that you will work smart but also very hard you will get ahead.If you keep believing in silver bullets to instant riches then you will spend years trying every BS infomercial and magazine gig out there.What gets me is people with an investing dream getting the little money they have sucked away by a GURU that thinks they are just a number and revenue builder making them richer and richer.

Why the bullet now?